Icebergs!

Today Gavin and I read a book about icebergs. We learned that only 1/8 of the iceberg is visible above the water and 7/8 of the iceberg is still under the water. Luckily, yesterday we had made our own iceberg, so we did an experiment to see if that was correct...it was!

Then Gavin stirred the water to make waves and see what the iceberg would do.
Then he decided he wanted to make it salt water and see if the salt would hold the ice up a little more...it didn't! Then he colored a picture of a humpback whale using bubbles to catch fish. We have been reading about whales and today we watched a video on YouTube of humpback whales blowing bubbles underwater to 'trap' fish (they won't swim through them) and then they swim straight up with their mouths open. It was a really cool video and neat to see since we've been reading about 'bubble nets' this week.


Finally, I got out some of the seashells I picked up from my trips to the ocean. We talked about them and then Gavin put them in order from the biggest to the smallest. And now, the tale of Beka and Scarlet. Yesterday Gavin and I planted two plants, whom he named Beka and Scarlet. I told him that we were going to start an experiment and water one with fresh water and one with salt water and see what would happen. Last night after he went to bed I was lamenting the fate of poor Beka or Scarlet, it just seems so wrong to intentionally kill a plant, even in the name of science. Well today we were going to get started and Gavin said that the salt water would kill the plant and he didn't want to put salt water on one and "kill my friends". And so, both Beka and Scarlet have been rescued from the cruel hands of science and are free to grow another day!
On a side note, today when I went in to wake Austin up from his nap so we could take Gavin to soccer practice, he was sitting up in his bed! Still not crawling though, he's army crawling so he gets around fairly well, but no hands and knees crawling. He gets up on his hands and knees but isn't going anywhere yet.